On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 11:12:57AM +0000, Iain Lane wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 02:15:59AM -0800, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Hi people, > > > > I'd like to suggest that we start setting NotAutomatic: yes for the > > proposed pocket with hirsute+1, such that things like SRU verification > > will be easier, and all those people who enable proposed in sources.list > > for I don't know what reasons don't get their systems destroyed as much. > > > > This would obviously require some changes to pin the repo back up on the > > builders, but I think it would be useful overall. > > Sounds good to me. > > I think the Launchpad support is still missing, although we started on > this several years ago. That will need to be picked up and finished off: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1016776 > > That bug report talks about doing it pre-release (for devel only) but I > think I'm now in favour of doing it always, and the proposed > implementation in there would allow that. For devel, the main reason is > that I frequently come across users who have misunderstood what proposed > is for and manually enabled it themsleves, resulting in various degrees > of brokenness on their systems and bug reports that take developers' > time to triage and eventually close. These are not (always) people who > have updated from a previous release, where we could have had tools > disable -proposed for them, but also people who have explicitly turned > it on after installing a daily out of an attempt to help test the > upcoming release.
Just as a reminder ubuntu-release-upgrader does disable -proposed during the upgrade to a development release of Ubuntu. Cheers, -- Brian Murray -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
